SCULPTOR

Germain Pilon

1525 - 1590

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Germain Pilon (c. 1525 – 3 February 1590) was a French Renaissance sculptor. He is, along with Jean Goujon, one of the most important sculptors of the French Renaissance. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Germain Pilon has received more than 63,862 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Germain Pilon is the 112th most popular sculptor (down from 96th in 2019), the 2,654th most popular biography from France (down from 2,347th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular French Sculptor.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.42

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.71

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among SCULPTORS

Among sculptors, Germain Pilon ranks 112 out of 258. Before him are Dani Karavan, Antoine-Louis Barye, Agoracritus, Vulca, Hendrick de Keyser, and John Flaxman. After him are Robert Morris, Konstantin Somov, Medardo Rosso, Bartolomeo Bon, Augustin Pajou, and Christian Daniel Rauch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1525, Germain Pilon ranks 8. Before him are Nurbanu Sultan, Şehzade Bayezid, John George, Elector of Brandenburg, Hans Staden, Giovanni Battista Moroni, and Zhang Juzheng. After him are John Albert I, Duke of Mecklenburg, Abbakka Chowta, Patriarch Job of Moscow, Caspar Peucer, Juraj Drašković, and Tadeáš Hájek. Among people deceased in 1590, Germain Pilon ranks 21. Before him are François Hotman, Leone Leoni, Archduchess Magdalena of Austria, Catherine of Ricci, André Thevet, and Hōjō Ujimasa. After him are Kanō Eitoku, Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, Dirck Coornhert, Robert Garnier, Jacques Cujas, and Philip, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp.

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In France

Among people born in France, Germain Pilon ranks 2,654 out of 6,770. Before him are Charles Renouvier (1815), Christian IV, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (1722), Jean Françaix (1912), Benoît de Sainte-Maure (1154), Émile Augier (1820), and André Frossard (1915). After him are Honoré IV, Prince of Monaco (1758), Charles Chamberland (1851), François-Paul Brueys d'Aigalliers (1753), Jean-Dominique Bauby (1952), Georges d'Amboise (1460), and François Mignet (1796).

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Among SCULPTORS In France

Among sculptors born in France, Germain Pilon ranks 22. Before him are Jean Goujon (1510), César Baldaccini (1921), Jean de Chelles (1200), Raymond Duchamp-Villon (1876), Antoine Coysevox (1640), and Antoine-Louis Barye (1795). After him are Augustin Pajou (1730), Jules Dalou (1838), Daniel Buren (1938), Auguste Clésinger (1814), Nicolas Coustou (1658), and Henri Laurens (1885).

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